[CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

Tue Oct 14 14:45:17 UTC 2008
Jens Larsson <jens at nsc.liu.se>

> > Any particular reason why not, if I may ask?

> Because other distributions have better support for brand-new consumer 
> hardware. Especially, if you consider the lifetime cycle of CentOS which 
> spans to 2014. Look at this not from the viewpoint of your mom, but from 
> the computershop that wants to sell lots of PCs to very different people 
> (which will expect to see *recent* software) and with (over the years) 
> quite differing hardware.
> Kai

But you don't want to supply consumers with an OS that gets unsupported 
before next christmas either, so Fedora is not the answer. Ubuntu LTS?

/jens

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